But less than a month into Trump's presidency, the school rejected $800,000 in federal funds aimed at combatting violent extremism. Many there felt Trump's rhetoric singling out Islamic extremism and his travel ban affecting predominantly Muslim countries had gone too far. Bayan Claremont had received the second-largest grant, among the first 31 federal grants for CVE awarded to organizations, schools and municipalities in the dwindling days of the Obama administration. But the fledgling school's founding president, Jihad Turk, said officials ultimately felt accepting the money would do more harm than good. A U.S. official said the Trump administration has been discussing changing the Obama administration program's name, established as a presidential strategy in 2011, to an iteration of "countering Islamic extremism."

Source: Fox News February 11, 2017 16:07 UTC